2.09.2012

Oh that's gonna hurt something good

Been battling off a cold for the last few days. Taking a steady diet of dayquil, nyquil, mulit-vitamin, plus two Emergency-Cs a day. Starting to feel better, but it's been a busy week so I've been pretty tired. Had a named WOD on deck today and I really wanted to take a crack at it.
Woke up for the DP and was just wiped. I hit snooze one too many times. Ooopps! Worked out for the best though. My wrist was killing me again when I woke up this morning and that extra 90 minutes of sleep does wonders man, especially when I'm feeling under the weather. Been stretching my wrist like crazy all day and it definitely helped. About midday I was teaching a class and noticed that the pain was completely gone. Couldn't believe it and can't explain it, but it feels great. The shoulder feels great today too...still haven't figured out if the two are related.

Strength
Front Squats 70%(255) x 5 x 5 **50lbs of the 70% are hanging KBs**
bar(8) - 135(8) - 185(5) - 205(5) --- 255 (2:00 REST b/n sets)
- This was rough! Those bells really make you pay if aren't in line the whole way down. The 1st set I was slightly forward and had a hard time finding my heals and the bells were tossing me all over the place. Really had to tighten my core up for the remainder of the set and focus. Almost messed up the 2nd set too. Blew a fart that smelled so bad it was killing me. Got the giggles from it because it was so bad. Had a hard time focusing on the last 3 reps, but made it through. The last 3 sets were very solid and rock bottom.
- Really enjoyed the intensity the hanging bells added this week to the strength work.

WOD
"Elizabeth"
21-15-9
Cleans (squat) 135#
Ring Dips
= 6:55
- Brutal!!
- I was pretty psyched all day to take this one on. Cleans & Ring Dips are both pretty strengths for me. I saw this on the main site last month and wanted to see how I measure up.
- Can't remember exactly, but I think I got to 12-15 cleans before needing to drop the bar. I finished that first round in 5s & 3s after that. Got to the ring dips and did 15-6. Next round of cleans was 3s & singles towards the end. Ring Dips were 6 to start and I can't remember after that. Last 9 cleans were singles at a decent pace. Drop and pick up. Dips were 4 or 5 and then singles.
- The ring dips were gassing. I hit that first 15 and dropped and was like WOW...didn't expect that from ring dips.
- Very happy with how hard I pushed it this evening. Definitely picked up the wrench on this one and gutted out some reps.

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